A schoolgirl aged 15 who performed for President Barack Obama at his
presidential inauguration in Washington last week has been shot dead in a
Chicago park by an alleged vigilante.

Hadiya Pendleton was huddling under a canopy to escape the rain in a park
about a mile from Mr Obama’s home in a South Side suburb when a man opened
fire on her and about a dozen other teenagers, allegedly mistaking them for
a gang.

Hadiya, who was at the park after being let out early from school after an
exam, was shot in the back as she tried to